The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/24 at 19:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 24, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/24 at 19:00 EDT

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From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Juliane Hazel Wood. Russia and Ukraine are trading drone attacks. Ukrainian officials say more than 10 Russian drones were flying over Kyiv. Orash's defense ministry says it's intercepted around 100 Ukrainian drones. It's just one day after Russia launched a massive attack on Kiev. All this as the two countries are in the midst of exchanging hundreds of prisoners. Dominic Velaitis reports.

Ukrainian prisoners cheer their release. The 307 service personnel who made it home on day two of the largest prisoner swap of the war. Ukraine released the same number of Russians. For some, their first taste of freedom was an opportunity to phone home. We've been exchanged, Natasha, he says. Don't worry, everything is OK. This latest swap comes after nearly 400 from each side were released Friday, after the two countries agreed to exchange a total of 1,000 prisoners during last week's talks in Turkey. Although another prisoner swap is expected Sunday, the war continues. Overnight Russia launched 250 drones and 14 ballistic missiles at Kiev, injuring at least

15 people. Dominic Velazquez for CBC News, Riga, Latvia. An Ontario man has been convicted in the 2023 murder of a provincial police officer. Sergeant Eric Mueller went to Elaine Belfoy's home to check on him. But Belfoy shot Mueller and two other officers, claiming self-defense. Criminal defense lawyer Nick Cake

had this take on that argument. Certainly there was no air of reality to that defense when you look at the facts, when you watch those body cameras, when you know that there was 14 seconds between the time that the police entered the house and the first shots came out, it's clear that the jury believed what the Crown was selling and that this was an ambush. Belfoy was found guilty of attempted murder of the two other officers.

He has 30 days to decide whether he'll appeal. Four high school students and a school staffer are dead after a multiple vehicle collision east of London, Ontario. They were in an SUV and collided with a transport truck, which then smashed into a second SUV. Their school board says they were in London for a sporting event. Police say they're continuing to investigate the Friday afternoon collision. Canada Post and the union representing postal workers say they'll continue talks this weekend. 55,000 workers were in a legal strike position yesterday but chose to stay on the job.

The Canadian union of postal workers has placed a ban on overtime work, so there may be some disruptions to mail delivery. Marvin Rider is an associate professor in marketing at McMaster University. I think the reason why they called off the absolute strike at this point was they realized there was very little consumer sentiment on their side. In other words, opinion polls had suggested that the public really wasn't rallying around them perhaps the way they were back in November, December. The strike at the end of last year spanned 32 days. The two sides continue to negotiate pay increases, weekend parcel delivery, and the hiring of part-time staff. Five people have been arrested in Montreal in connection to

jewelry thefts targeting seniors. It's the latest in a series of similar incidents that have prompted warnings from police forces across the country. Montreal police say three men and two women were arrested after allegedly approaching victims to have them try on a worthless gift and then stealing one or more pieces of valuable jewelry worn by the victim. A dissident Iranian director has won

one of cinema's top prizes. For the Golden Palm, a simple accident of Jafar Fahmy. French actor, Juliette Binoche, announces J Jafar Panahi as the winner of the Pomme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. For his latest movie, it was just an accident. Over his long career, Panahi has been imprisoned multiple times and government censorship has often forced him to work in secret. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.